Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all students to be successful. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

Family and Consumer Science

• Explains the impact personal hygiene can have on our relationships and confidence. 

• Demonstrates conditions and practices that promote safe food handling. 

• Identifies food borne illnesses, their sources, and prevention methods.

• Demonstrates proper measuring techniques for both liquid and dry ingredients. 

• Identifies the six basic nutrients and the sections for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. 

Introduction to Programming

• Discusses how technology can be unfair or hard for some people to use and suggests ways to improve its design.

• Plans solutions to problems using step-by-step instructions like flowcharts or pseudocode.

• Creates variables with clear names and uses them to store and work with different kinds of information.

• Designs and improve programs using loops and "if-then" logic.

• Breaks down big problems into smaller parts to help design, build, and fix programs more easily.

• Uses feedback from classmates or users to improve projects and better meet people’s needs.

• Tests programs in different ways to make sure they work and fix any problems that show up.

• Writes reusable chunks of code called procedures to make programs easier to build and understand.

Introduction to Journalism

• Composes an informative or explanatory text that introduces a topic, organizes ideas, and develops the topic using facts, details, and examples

• Researches a topic to answer a question and ask new questions to learn more.

• Uses punctuation and spelling to make my writing clear and professional.

• Uses different kinds of sentences and a steady tone to make my writing clear and interesting.

• Give credit when using someone else’s work.

• Examines information found online to decide if it is trustworthy, accurate, and fair before using it.

• Designs and create a digital project that shares ideas or information clearly.

• Uses digital tools to work with my team and help reach a group goal.

Advanced PE

• Participates in games, fitness activities, dance, and outdoor movement using correct form and control.

• Uses strategies, movement concepts, and fitness principles to improve performance and health.

• Works cooperatively, show respect, communicate effectively, and solve problems during physical activity.

• Sets goals, reflect on movement experiences, manage emotions, and choose activities that support lifelong physical activity.

Keyboarding

• Maintains correct posture and hand/finger positioning 

• Maintains touch typing (without looking) for extended tasks on the keyboard.

• Types 30–40 words per minute with 90% or higher accuracy using correct finger placement and posture

• Demonstrates responsible use of digital tools, devices and digital environments.

Art

• Student successfully uses planning tools to develop original art concepts

• Students are able to make a plan to create art and see the project through. 

• Student is able to finish artwork

• Student is able to present their work for presentation. 

• Student makes sure their art sends a clear message to the person looking at it

• Students are able to observe the details and break down the artist's choices

• Students are able to use our project checklist to see how well the art follows the goal

• Students are able to take personal experiences and artistic knowledge and put them together to make art. 

• Students are able to share the 'who, where, and when' behind the art to tell what it’s really about.

Band

• Practices instrument each week for quarterly required hours.

• Performs concert music with technical and expressive accuracy.

• Demonstrates rehearsal and concert etiquette.

• Identifies musical symbols and their function in music accurately. 

• Performs selected music with technical and expressive accuracy.

• Chooses music and explains how it connects to my personal interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

Strings

• Reads and identifies the essential elements of music literacy through sight-reading. 

• Performs selected music with technical and expressive accuracy on MusicFirst classroom.

• Practices instrument three days a week using appropriate methods for improvement. 

• Performs concerts demonstrating appropriate musical skills.

• Demonstrates rehearsal and concert etiquette.

Choir

• Can sing a musical melody. 

• Explains how the music sung in class expresses an idea, story or emotion.  

• Identifies musical symbols and their function in music accurately. 

• Demonstrates appropriate behavior etiquette during choir rehearsal and performance. 

Theater Arts

• Identifies how performers create characters using the tools of an actor. 

• Works with others to create/perform works of theatre.

• Develops physical and vocal traits for characters.

• Describes how an actor's choices affect the story.

• Uses practice to improve skills. 

• Uses technical and design aspects to help tell a story.

• Describes and evaluates works of theatre.

• Investigates the time and place of a theatrical work.